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Hannah Winston covers crime and breaking news for The Palm Beach Post. Born and raised in South Florida, Winston started her journalism career at the Independent Florida Alligator while studying at the University of Florida. She interned at various media outlets across the country including The Gainesville Sun, ABC News in Washington, D.C., and was a 2013 reporting fellow for News21, a Carnegie-Knight national investigative journalism project, in Phoenix, Ariz. She joined The Post in 2014.

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Update, 9:35 p.m.: Florida Highway Patrol has identified the 80-year-old man who died in a one-vehicle crash on Interstate-95 Wednesday afternoon. At 2:05 p.m., Byron Lefebvre was headed north on I-95 near Palmetto Park Road when, for unknown reasons, veered right off the road and crashed into a palm tree. Lefebvre, of West Palm...

Charles Vorpagel, the man who escaped a triple murder on Super Bowl Sunday in Jupiter on 2017, has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison on drug and weapon charges. Vorpagel, who faced up to life in prison, was sentenced Friday on federal charges for possession of a firearm, possessing a controlled substance with intent to distribute...

On Sunday night, 36-year-old Jacob Lodge met with his estranged wife, Katrina Nebergall, outside the home she shared with her father in The Acreage to exchange their children’s clothes, as they had done several times during their separation. Nebergall said in a statement that her husband was calm until she noticed a startled look on...

He took an Uber to his former high school, arriving at 2:19 p.m. on Valentine’s Day. In a duffel bag, the teenager accused in Florida’s deadliest school shooting carried an AR-15 style rifle he had purchased legally a year earlier at Sunrise Tactical Supply, authorities said. As 17 former classmates and teachers lay dead...

Two fatal shootings on Interstate 95 in Palm Beach County were linked to each other through ballistic evidence, Boca Raton police reported Thursday. According to the department, detectives were able to link the Feb. 7 shooting death of 29-year-old Edvin Milkevic to the chaotic crime spree of 22-year-old Hugo Selva that ended in Selva&rsquo...

Before Nikolas Cruz opened fire on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 people, on Wednesday, a witness radioed to a co-worker they saw the former student walk on campus wearing a backpack and carrying a duffle bag, according to an arrest report released Thursday afternoon. Within a minute, the witness told deputies...

A day after 17 people were killed in a school shooting in Broward County, a student at Palm Beach Lakes High School on Thursday allegedly brought two guns to school, officials said. In a recorded call to parents, Palm Beach Lakes High School Principal David Alfonso said they received an anonymous tip that a student had a weapon...

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said that multiple students are dead after a shooting. The shooter was taken into custody without any incident and is not a student at the school at this time. He is believed to be 18-years-old. Authorities are also at a home on Loxahatchee Road, about a mile from the school. It’s unclear...

A man is in the hospital after a Brightline train hit his vehicle that was stopped on the tracks, according to Boca Raton police. Jessica Desir, public information officer for city police, said at about 8 p.m. officers were called to the intersection of Camino Real and South Dixie Highway where a train hit a vehicle. Witnesses told police...

A 911 call released Tuesday indicates Hugo Selva may have tried to turn himself in to West Palm Beach police in the hours before authorities say he fatally shot his girlfriend, caused multiple crashes on Interstate 95 and then was shot dead by a sheriff’s deputy last week. The phone call, from a man claiming to be Selva, came to city...